UPDATED: Ubisoft DRM loophole allows remote hackers to access PCs

A potentially very serious issue with the PC DRM employed by Ubisoft seems to have left many gamers susceptible to hackers.

Rock Paper Shotgun reports that a problem with the Uplay/DRM infrastructure of a number of Ubisoft titles that allows websites to plant potentially malicious code onto the PCs of any visitors who have Uplay installed on their machines.

An attack using this method could easily be orchestrated by an email link. There have also been suggestions that the issue could in theory allow Ubisoft to omitor user’s machines.

This would be a serious breach of trust for any publishers, but for Ubisoft it’s a particularly damning blow. The company has already been beset with high-profile protests against its DRM, which can leave users unable to access single-player titles if technical problems occur.

This latest saga will certainly not help its case.

RPS is urging any gamers who have the following titles installed on their machine to uninstall both them and the Uplay applications as soon as possible. Here’s the list of games that are believed to be affected:

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